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Five emoji. One story. Where will your imagination take you?
Two tiny parentheses. One expression. How big of a change can they make? Bigger than you think.
Adults can learn to help students reduce anxiety with the tool Worry Time.
No video gets me more email from students! How few colors can you use to color in any map so that no two, neighboring regions are the same color?
How would people with two different perspectives discuss a decision from history?
Just because a task is “creative” doesn’t mean students are at the top of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Why are there 12 months? Why don’t weeks fit into months evenly? Why don’t weeks fit into the year evenly? What’s going on with the calendar!
A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!
How I accidentally discouraged curiosity in my classroom.
The Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House — group them, pick the best from each group, then design your own.
Do you know someone who becomes a bit overexcited by ideas?
Want something to do during the holiday season that is both fun and involves thinking? Get students writing about what a snowman would think about Halloween or what a ghost would think about Thanksgiving.
What’s going on in this room? There are shoes everywhere! Are those… oranges? Let’s make some inferences!
We’ll take two seemingly unrelated pieces of content (say volcanoes and the human body) and then build analogies to connect the two ideas. In the end, students can create a skit, comic, or story relating the two concepts.
Reduce anxiety by learning to “change the channel.”
Let’s use factors to encode and decode words.
Your students will set up a tournament to determine which person or character best demonstrated resiliency.
Adults can limit anxiety by implementing the Five Question Rule.
When fractions take on a new denominator, it’s as if they’re wearing a disguise – same value, new look. So let’s write a story about fraction equivalence starring a fraction who needs to fit in with a new group.
You only have six digits to form three fractions. Can you combine them to get to 0?
Have you ever noticed that some stories have awfully similar problems? What if we looked for the most unusual way of solving a repeating problem?
Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.
Learn to lead a lesson that is built entirely on student curiosity.
A passage from “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.
We’ll start with the cliché “as cold as ice” and go somewhere much more interesting.
When a student’s brain is full of worries, everything feels urgent. Brain Plate helps them sort what’s real from what’s noise — and actually do something about it.
We tell students to ‘show, not tell’ — but that advice is useless until they experience the difference. This lesson makes it click.
